Special Opening Hours
Monday, November 1, 2010
Monday, January 3, 2011
Days off
Tuesday, November 30, 2010: Very probably on Tuesday, November 30, 2010, the museum shop will be closed because of inventory.
Friday, December 24 until Sunday, December 26, 2010
Friday, December 31, 2010
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Admission price
Adult: 8 Euros

Also note: there a small snack café down in the museum’s lobby, you can also get a Boxster Burger there. They also have snack bar for sandwhiches and coffee and cake. Upstairs there is a really nice, high end restaurant too. They sell $$$ Porsche steaks there! lol

Directions – coming from the North.

• Freeway A 81 Stuttgart – Heilbronn (Heilbronn – Stuttgart)
• Exit Zuffenhausen
• B10 in the direction of Stuttgart Zentrum/Messe
• Just follow the signs to Porsche SE (five mins on the B10).
• Once you get to the traffic circle with the museum & dealership, turn right and park in the garage under the museum. Its on the left side of the museum.

I know there are a lot of Porsche fans here on BimmerPost.com… so I thought I would treat you to a very special museum. This is a MUST SEE place when coming to Germany – I think. In fact I saw THREE M3’s on ED tour while driving around near Porsche Musuem.

Ok, onto my photo tour…

Dackel

Porsche SE photos of the outside of the museum…
Factory run dealership…

And here are my photos of this wonderful museum… Enjoy!

Porsche SE (HQ building on right, factory dealership on left)
Ferdinand Porsche…
Going up the long escalator...
The view going up...
This is the first thing you see… The Berlin to Rome rally car that never raced. MG]

Type 909 Bergspyder racer (1968)… no fuel pump needed, just a pressurized ball!
In 1968 titanium crankshaft used 13Kg it was 10Kg lighter than the steel version!
Steering wheel from a 917/10 built in 1972, weighed only 595 grams!
908 shifter only weighed in at 18grams. Balsa wood ball on end of shifter for added weight savings!
Light weight racing shoes tailored made for Vic Elford. Only 550 grams.
In 1996 Porsche introduced hallow spoke alloy wheels on the type 993 Turbo model.

I thought I would share some (more) of my photos of the Porsche museum. These photos are of the old original museum. It was really tiny, but charming and special, I kind of miss the old museum. It was located on the factory grounds… so you always got to see some “fresh” Porsches being tested out on the public streets of Zuffenhausen.

The old brick building is the current customer service dept in Werk-I. This is where the "special wishes dept" was located and where very special Porsche customers can take their car in for service or exclusive options to be installed. When I was there in 2001 I saw THREE 959's with USA tags on them. One from CA and two from Nevada I think.

Enjoy,
Dackel

Some of the street signs pointing you to Porsche.
On the B10 coming from the A-81 autobahn.
Signs to where the old museum was located…
Old museum entrance was just to the right of photo…
The old museum’s entrance…
Inside the factory, just under the old museum…
The understated entrance to the old museum…
Love those door pulls!
The old charming (small) museum…
959 concept car…
One of my favorite things about the old museum was this wall of models. Every Porsche ever made had its mini model up on that wall!
356-1 the very first car Porsche made in Gmuend, Austria.
Toys big and small…
Back outside on the streets of Zuffenhausen…
Mmmmmm….
HQ building…
Factory run and owned P-Zentrum…
Werk-1 This was where Ferry’s office was. Also the Motorsports Dept was located here. Now it is in Weissach. This is where Porsche Exclusive and the parts dept and special customer cars are serviced.
Inside Werk-I’s service dept…
993TT engine display…
Production bridge that connects the body shop with the final production hall…
Finished production cars awaiting transport to their new owners…

Do they still have the Porsche that was cut into three sections on display on the second floor?

No, I have never seen that car in my many visits there.

The cars that are displayed up on the 2nd floor (like the American roadsters) are always changing. When I first went to the museum they had all the Turbo evolutions of the 911 on those turn tables & steps area.

The Moby Dick 935, Martini 935 RSR, Rothman's 962's, Ferry's b'day 918, Gulf 917 and a bonus exploded 917 motor all in one roof? My God; I never would have gotten out of that place! Makes the odd 930 seem humdrum!

Tell me, how cool would it be to work in the Porsche Musuem's restoration shop?

Fantastic post,

ianc

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Those "new 996's" were taken back in 2005 - I think. They were parked out back awaiting export to the USA and Canada. The German market cars stay inside. lol

Those photos of the old museum were taken back in 2004 & '05. The new mega museum opened in fall of 2007. Thats why the photos are smaller bc I had a lower pixel digital camera back then.

I went there a few months after Porsche opened the new Musuem in 2007. I have been fortunate enough to visit the Porsche museum many, many times. I think four or five times already. I lost count of how many times I visited the old Museum. First time was in 1991 for me. Anytime I am near Stuttgart I make it a point of stopping by.

Besides the new Porsche Museum being on anyones Bucket List... I would also say MB's Musuem in near by Untertürkheim (also in Stuttgart) just across town - is a MUST SEE place. And of course BMW's Welt and Musuem too.

Awesome photo's and info! You really did a nice job. It is not easy to get all those shot's at the Museum as you did. I was there in Aug of this year as well as the MBZ museum across town while attending one of the factory Porsche driving tours.

Awesome photo's and info! You really did a nice job. It is not easy to get all those shot's at the Museum as you did. I was there in Aug of this year as well as the MBZ museum across town while attending one of the factory Porsche driving tours.

^^Thanks. Yes, the MB Musem is quite nice. I also enjoy going to Ssheim's Technik Musuem only about 30 minutes from Stuttgart.

You might be interested in seeing some of the other cool auto musuems I have been to in Germany. Have you seen this thread?

I sure did! That is where I found this thread. You have been blessed for sure! Bastard!

Have you been up to the ring? Did not get a chance this summer to go myself, but that is still on my bucket list! Really would like to order a new car and pick it up over there, and drive around touring for a couple of weeks and then ship it back here.

To drive a new M3 or 911 on the ring and then head south for the Alps and in to Italy would be a dream holiday! Well one can dream... and it keep's me getting up in the morning to make the doughnuts!!

Sometimes the Porche Museum has on display Ferry's red B-day 914. It had a flat 8-boxer motor with 300 PS and quad headlights. Piech also loved the idea of a flat eight 914 that he had the boys at Porsche build him one too. But Piech's had more power!!